[Dixielandjazz] Laying Out Your Site

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Doing web sites can get pretty complicated but I recommend that anyone who 
wants to do a web site take a course if there is a local Jr. College or 
Adult school courses.

Every company that sells web space also have templates that you can use and 
for a quick down and dirty they are great but you will soon want something 
better.

I use Dreamweaver.  If you look around you can get an older version a lot 
cheaper than the approximately $400 for a new version.  I use Dreamweaver 5 
which is getting ancient.  Dreamweaver is fairly intuitive but is still not 
a one night project.

The cool thing about Dreamweaver is that you can see your page exactly as it 
will appear before you upload it to the site.   You can also see if it works 
the way you think it should such as go to different pages, if the colors are 
right or is the photo sized right.

I also have FrontPage 2003 - I don't think it is as easy as Dreamweaver.

There are lot of other things you need to know like how to upload your 
pages, that is if you aren't using a template.  Sizing photos is important 
too as is how to handle multiple pages etc.  Wading through a book on this 
stuff is not at all fun.

HTML can be daunting.  Dreamweaver generates HTML as you go.  There are ways 
to borrow HTML from other web sites.

It's pretty hard to help someone via e-mail but if I can be of any help I'll 
give it a shot.  I'm certainly not an expert but I did manage to get mine up 
an running.

Think some classes, that way you have someone to ask and explain glitches 
that will come up.
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <BillSargentDrums at aol.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Laying Out Your Site


>I said a couple of weeks back that I would provide you with the following
> information.
>
> For those who wish to make your sites look really professionally laid out, 
> a
> basic utilization of HTML will be necessary.
>
> You don't need to know or  memorize a lot, just a few basics like line
> breaks, paragraphs, bold &  italic type and links will get you through for 
> the most
> part. It's really not  that hard, you just place a few bits of code within 
> the
> copy you place on your  sites, and it actually ends up looking like you
> really want it to  look.
>
> Following are two sites I  use:
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp
>
>
> http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html
>
>
>
>
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